L'annonce faite à Marie

New edition on current paper.
Binding half old pink cardboard corners and snake way back with five nerves decorated with stylized lily flowers stamped cold, slightly rubbed joints, paper boards floral, guards and contreplats paper moiré, covers and backs preserved, charming decorative contemporary binding.
Signed autograph of Paul Claudel Robert Garric, "... his friend who wants to be his collaborator ..."
Catholic reformist, he was the founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "